PANOGEN for Sheet metal

PANOGEN for Sheet Metal is the derivative of a family of products created 25 years ago in AIRBUS laboratories, for the specific requirements of the aircraft industry. Dedicated to Sheet Metal Manufacturing, the product's main feature is to provide a CATIA V5 integrated tool (workbench) for part preparation & programming for contour following machine (milling, water jet, laser cutting). This workbench is included in NC Manufacturing workshop from the CATIA V5 Start Menu.  The integration in CATIA V5 makes it possible to exploit directly the native geometry resulting from the design phase and reduced considerably the preparation and programming work of the elementary part. The preparation work consists of: Definition of a manufacturing context by the allocation of a machine and a material to the part Automatic detection & verification of the part closed profiles Insertion of lugs on profiles Insertion of texts for marking operations  The programming work consists of: Automatic creation of cutting paths (profile contouring & pocketing operations) Automatic creation of drilling & riveting operations Automatic creation of marking operations Interactive work to create/delete/modify new or existing manufacturing operations A complementary product is PANOGEN Sheet metal Manufacturing CAA V5 based: Production management with possible link to an ERP system Automatic nesting Nesting visualisation & edition Post-processing to generate the NC files